According to NHK, Japanese Police conducted a wholesale arrest of the internet users who uploaded illegal files through a software called "Share". Ten people ranging from 23 to 57 years old were arrested and one is under investigation the last one was arrested (Dec 1st) by Kyoto Police. There is no interaction among them and the police charged the eleven individually. This is the first time Japanese Police made a nationwide act against the illegal file sharing.

List of the anime-related suspects:
57 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Hikaru no Go"
44 year old system engineer, arrested for sharing movies and anime (unspecified)
40 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Dragon Ball Kai"
37 year old prefectural employee, arrested for sharing "Mobile Suit Gundam 00"
30 year old arcade clerk, arrested for TV anime (unspecified)
23 year old postal clerk, arrested for sharing "Lucky ☆ Star"
23 year old jobless man, arrested for sharing "Ranma ½" and Dragon Quest 9

So you are going to put people in jail for their taste?
It reminds me Chinese government...

Btw, keep you facts correct and up to date: there was and is IRC, and Rapidshare is bigger in sharing universe than megaupload (you probably put your personal preference here, where you possibly have an account).

57 is way too early to have grandchildren. Many people have their own little kids at that age.
Also, why are you watching anime then? You're not a kid anymore. Being 23 years old, you should be much closer mentally to 57 than to, say, 12.

Which decade are you living in? 57 is far from being way too early to have grandchildren.

my grandma is ~59 and I am ~19...... ;_; (so clearly at age 57 she had grandchildren)... my other grandma is mid 70s.

Sure, there are a lot of people who upload decent anime.
But there are less those who upload such pearls like "Hikaru no Go" (which you have not watched, the same as Ranma 1/2 which is above simply decent anime). I recommend you (and every one as well) to give a try to Hikaru no Go. This is the best anime I know with so great character development and original story.

GDL-URAHARA said:Someone tell me how was it possible to find those people? 'Share" is not IP based program like torrent.
I assume that the information that they (uploaders) gave some additional information, e.g. forums etc.

Basically it is downloading and uploading, your ISP keep track of everything u download and upload so it is not that hard to find out

Ok, I misunderstood the anonymity in Share and Prefect Dark.
But still, those people you are connected to do not know which files (parts of files) are stored on their computer for sharing (those 40 GB of unknown data which you are sharing). And you do not know as well, what is stored on your computer, and shared.

Eh, our live is more difficult since the popularity of internet took the world. It was so nice when only few people had e-mails and there were no facebook, almost no spam. But there were no MAL as well ;( So we can see clearly that every progress brings some good and some not so good things in our lives.

Realy >.> im guessing there are roughly 2-3 billion people who download illegally and lol what they gonna arrest half the population >.> i dont think so i salute these brave heroes that are bringing joy to many people XD lets all send em cookies and cigs and hope they get light sentence XD and there will always be new and better ways to share anime XD

bottom line is if i realy like the anime i will buy it but Hell
i wont buy it if i haven't seen it first >.>

oh yer guys say no to clean feed for AU it will help us alot >.> fuck you Australian government